Month: July 2017

In my previous post called Xamarin: how to Start an Application at Device Boot in Android, I explained how you can change your Android Xamarin’s project to launch your app at the device boot. It is a good start but my problem was a bit more complex. I want to create a background service to track the geolocation of a device. I googled a lot to find a solution without a great success. Then I started to implement my code with some tests. Finally, I found a good way and…

This tutorial will explain to stat an application while the Android device boot-up. For this, we need to  listen to the BOOT_COMPLETED action and react to it. BOOT_COMPLETED is a Broadcast Action that is broadcast once, after the system has finished booting. You can listen to this action by creating a BroadcastReceiver that then starts your launch Activity when it receives an intent with the BOOT_COMPLETED action. Add this permission to your manifest In your Android.Manifest you must add thi permission: <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED” />   Then open this file and…